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Psychology of Albert Fish

Abstract

Having reportedly victimized hundreds of children in the early 1900s, Albert Fish’s abhorrent,paraphilic crimes have been the subject of research for the better part of a century. Presently,much conjecture exists as to whether Fish’s crimes were the result of familial mental illness(nature) or environmental abuses suffered as a child (nurture). However, it is possible that theetiology of Fish’s atrocities stem from both the biological and environmental factors outlined inthis piece.